5364-UDL Lesson Post

For our group project we had to create a UDL lesson on our unit for our scenario. The template is located in http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/ This by far was the hardest for me. As teachers we differentiate our learning everyday without even thinking about it. There is no "one size fits all" for our students so this is nothing new. I really had to dissect the project for my students in order to complete my UDL lesson. UDL stands for Universal Design Learning and it has to have three network components in it; Recognition Network, Strategic Network, and Affective Network. Recognition stands for "what", how we gather the facts, the delivery of the lesson. Strategic is how the students express what we have delivered or what they learned, but they have to be able to express it in different forms in order to cover all learners. Affective Network is how we stimulate the learning and their desire to learn it, which has to be done in order for the student to actually want and be able to retain the information that was taught to them. This task was daunting, but it helped me better understand the needs of my students and that I can dig deeper and better acomodate my lessons and the delivery of them.

Reflection of Course EDLD 5366

I really have enjoyed taking these technology classes. There has been some frustration, sure, but all in all it’s been a great learning experience. I remember being in a graphics design class in nineteen ninety-nine. Things have changed so much since then. I remember sitting in class watching the professor go through the program, Director, while we sat and watched from our computers. Now I go to You Tube and watch a tutorial on whatever program I want to learn to use. The first week of EDLD 5366 we learned design fundamentals. The second week we made a logo and then the third week we made an animation. The fourth week was the website design. I have learned so much and I truly enjoyed every week’s assignment. I was especially interested in the Bloom’s Digital taxonomy. I have already shared this with my school and administrators and they were really impressed. The web 2.0 tools that I’ve learned to use I plan to share with my classes this year. I, myself, use my Smart Board everyday. I constantly resort to the internet to find lessons. Classrooms will soon all be flipped, lectures are soon to be completely on podcasts. I’ve learned so much since I’ve started this Master’s program and I can’t wait to see what else is yet to be invented.

Group Video-Telling Time

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Reflection #3

The last web conference was short and sweet. It was on Saturday, June 30th. Lots of people had questions about 4.3 and 4.4. Kay Abernathy assured us that she wasn’t a “gotcha” professor and that she just wanted us learning and growing. She also talked about how some people didn’t have grades and that they needed to email her if this was the case. She wanted to make sure that everyone had a grade. She also said that if we had trouble turning stuff in then we needed to email her with our problems because apparently there was a lot of confusion with the assignments for week 4 and what exactly we had to turn in. She stated that we didn’t have to turn in video for week four only for week five.

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Reflection #2

I was able to attend Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Professor Abernathy talked about how all the footers on our assignments should now say Lamar University June 2012 and if you had a different date then you needed the correct one. She also told us about the resources tab and that we should all go there and watch her Digital Story. It was a good example for us to watch and to help us get started. People once again were asking about the “cookbook” and if it was a requirement. A lot of the course needed to be cleaned up because it had a lot of the old class requirements on it still and a lot of the students were getting confused. Dr. Abernathy mentioned that Lamar University will be using Blackboard for the August 27th session. There were some technical difficulties with the sound but of course that happens. People in the class were being nice by answering peoples questions about posting the script to our story. They mentioned that it needed to go into the discussion board and not just put a quote into the discussion board. We also talked about forming our groups for week 3. I also learned that there is a George Williams and myself, Georgee Ruiz-Williams so that was kind of funny. The important part about this conference was that we all needed the right assignments and that we should start forming groups.

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Reflection #1

I had to work for the Monday, June 4th web conference but I watched the recording. Professor Abernathy explained that she was there to answer any questions that we had. People were confused about what assignments were the correct ones because a lot of them had 2009 printed down at the bottom. People asked about who their IAs were because apparently there were two. A lot of people had the wrong assigments because the old assignments had been posted onto EPIC. People were also asking about the readings and if the cookbook was a requirement. Professor Abernathy assured the class that the new assignments would be posted soon.

My Digital Story...Blessed-Fly Over States